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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by EventH- on Thursday May 16, 2019 @05:28PM (#19933467)
Have these people never read Harrison Bergeron? How do they think this is going to end?
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by Apocryphon on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:51PM (#19935802)
Player Piano seems like a better forecast for how society is progressing, actually
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by dunstad on Thursday May 16, 2019 @05:32PM (#19933520)
Don't believe everything you read. Vonnegut is an author, not a prophet.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by EventH- on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:33PM (#19934113)
Totally irrelevant; this isn't a matter of the author being one thing or another. The point Vonnegut makes in the story is a philosophical one, namely that a blind pursuit of equality is wicked and inhuman, which is transparently correct.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by knolax on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:46PM (#19934222)
Arguing that point with a fictional novel seems incredibly opaque, inefficient, and sometimes disingenuous.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by bdowling on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:38AM (#19936619)
Sometimes fiction is the best way to express truth.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by gred on Thursday May 16, 2019 @08:12PM (#19934807)
this comment : thought :: soylent : food
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by knolax on Thursday May 16, 2019 @09:00PM (#19935118)
Your comment isn't nearly as clever or original as you think it is.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by gred on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:42PM (#19935759)
At least it was clear, efficient and sincere!
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by Erik816 on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:40PM (#19934176)
Seems like he was both.
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